E=mc2 and The Buddhis Dharma
When Pai-chang gave a certain series of talks, an old man would come in with the monks to hear him speak. When they left, he would leave also. One day, however, he remained behind. Pai-chang asked him, "Who are you, standing here befor me?" The old man answered, "Indeed, I am not a human being. In the ancient days of Kashyapa Buddha, I was head priest at his mountain. One day a monk asked me, 'Does the completely enlightened person fall under the law of cause and effect or not?' I replied, 'Such a person does not fall under the law of cause and effect. 'Whith this I was reborm five hundred times as a fox. I beg you to give me a truing word to release me from my life as a fox. Tell me, does the completely enlightened person fall under the law of cause and effect?" Pai-chang said, "The law of cause and effect cannot be eveaded." With this, the old man was elightened.
-Yamada, Gateless Gate
It cannot be evaded, yet the Law of Karma, and more broadly the Dharma itself remain elusive. Religion, philosophy, and science everywhere pursue the Dharma and seek to understand it. Modern physicists find themselves close to the Buddhist understanding of the law; they see that phenomena are empty, yet not empty, just as the Chengtao ko says. The further physicists pursue the Dharma, the closer they come to the unknowable. Translate "essential nature" as "energy" and the "possibilities" of essential nature as "tendencies," and you will be talking good physics. (The reverse is not true, however. Emptiness in physics is a phenomenon. The Zen Buddhist will quote the proverb: "even the sky must be beaten." Emptiness itself must be wiped away.)
-The Mind of Clover Essys in Zen Buddhist Ethics by Robert Aitken
Now that is some interesting stuff! (or maybe I just think to much *rubes head*) ^_^'
-Yamada, Gateless Gate
It cannot be evaded, yet the Law of Karma, and more broadly the Dharma itself remain elusive. Religion, philosophy, and science everywhere pursue the Dharma and seek to understand it. Modern physicists find themselves close to the Buddhist understanding of the law; they see that phenomena are empty, yet not empty, just as the Chengtao ko says. The further physicists pursue the Dharma, the closer they come to the unknowable. Translate "essential nature" as "energy" and the "possibilities" of essential nature as "tendencies," and you will be talking good physics. (The reverse is not true, however. Emptiness in physics is a phenomenon. The Zen Buddhist will quote the proverb: "even the sky must be beaten." Emptiness itself must be wiped away.)
-The Mind of Clover Essys in Zen Buddhist Ethics by Robert Aitken
Now that is some interesting stuff! (or maybe I just think to much *rubes head*) ^_^'